HOUSTON, April 7 -- Space shuttle accident investigators today appeared increasingly baffled as to why NASA officials decided to launch Columbia despite a recurrent problem with foam coming off its ...
Severed foam insulation was not considered a hazard or a high-priority problem even though it broke off during a space shuttle launch just a few months before Columbia's doomed flight, a NASA expert ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Workers may have accidentally cut or crushed the section of foam that broke off Discovery's fuel tank during its launch two months ago - a mishap that threatened the safety of ...
The problem of foam debris -- believed to have brought down the Columbia -- may never be completely solved and could damage space shuttles on future missions, two members of the Columbia Accident ...